Film Task - Creating and Developing our Film Ideas

For our main film, we have to make a 2-minute film opening from a genre of our own choice, containing the main conventions and editing styles used in the genre. In our small group we came up with a few Ideas, one being an action thriller where a main protagonist hijacks a gangs exchanging of a briefcase. Another idea was a horror, the main premise in this short film is a woman walks into a old mansion, which is filled with creepy dolls and lit candles, this would finish with the woman being haunted by a ghost and ending with a jump-scare at the end of the 2 minute start of the film.

In our group we decided that the action thriller would be a better opportunity to show our best skills, this would make the film 16+, even though the 2 minute introduction to the film won’t have much violence and profanity, the rest of the film if it was made would include quite a lot of violence.

Log Line 25-word summary - Two opposing gangs exchange a mysterious briefcase in a sketchy setting, but a stand-alone hero appears to have other ideas.

The main premise of the plot is that 2 people are getting ready in their bedroom/car, dressed in a suit, with sunglasses, the audience can presume that these 2 different people are from 2 different gangs, but this is kept a secret throughout the 2 minutes of the film, to end the film on a cliffhanger. after the scene of the people getting ready, the film cuts to a person receiving a text message of coordinates or an address, the second part of the film is the two people exchanging a briefcase in an empty car park, the audience still don't know who the people are or what is in the briefcase.

In the end part of the film opening, the person that receives the briefcase is walking away from the car park, however, the protagonist that received the message about the location intercepts the mission, and has a foot chase with the person holding the briefcase.